Renters can be like children, but at the same time I've found that not acting like their disappointed Mommy and giving them a lecture every time they clog their pipes or lose a key, means that when things break they tell me that they're broken. Listen, it's easy to blame your Tenant for losing the key, and clogging the plumbing, and for treating you like you're there 'Mommy' but it's the job we signed up for when we bought property with the intent to rent it out (or signed up to be property managers). Neither of these errors should be charged against the tenant. If you did have and subsequently lost it, that's your bad. If you didn't have 2 keys to the box when the tenant moved in, it was your responsiblility to make a spare for yourself. I'd eat that replacement lock cost and only charge the tenant for the spare key charge. If the LL typically retains a copy but in this case can't find it, that's poor management and I wouldn't charge the replacement lock cost to the tenant. If a tenant loses his key, he is responsible for the cost of replacement. In that setup, the mailbox bank itself is the financial responsibility of the LL, the ability and key to open the full bank is reserved for the postal worker exclusively, and the individual door locks are the LLs responsibility, much like the front door lock of the rental unit. I believe you are talking about a mailbox bank where the 8 mailboxes are opened by the postal worker as a unit to put the mail in, but each individual box door opens separately by the tenant's key. Federal mail theft and illegal use of postal keys is a felony and comes with a five-year prison sentence for each count.I think you may need to clarify the type of mailbox setup you have. Investigators haven’t released the description of the suspects, but they’re looking for two women and possibly two men. “Definitely going to go in the building and dump it in the chute from now own,” said Peterson. That leaves people like Peterson left to make some changes of their own. Instead it’s using other measures it doesn’t want to release to the public. The postal service won’t do the costly replacement of changing all the locks. “(It) can mess with people’s finances, can mess with people’s personal life, can prevent them from obtaining loans and houses and things like that,” said Leder. Retrieve your incoming mail as quickly as possible and make sure to do so before nighttime. The Mill Creek Police Department has this warning for people living in the area: Take your outgoing mail to the post office or put it in a secure, non-communal box. “It’s not a victimless crime, it’s a personal crime when your mail is stolen, that’s your personal information and I think the people of Washington state are pretty sick of it,” said Leder. Postal Service master key causes concern in Mill Creek They’ve already struck 12 times in two days. They got away with a master key that can open many mailboxes and collection bins. “(They) orchestrated attempt at distracting a mail carrier with the sole purpose of stealing her mail key she uses to open up the boxes,” said U.S. One or two other thieves were in the getaway car. postal inspectors say two thieves targeted a postal worker on Tuesday by walking up to her for a casual conversation while she was stuffing boxes at a communal mailbox. My mail gets stolen right out in front of my house,” said Peterson.īut individual mailboxes are now small fries. “We put a locking mailbox outside and they broke it, so that’s why I got the P.O. “I’ve had five times my identity stolen in the last three or four years,” said Peterson. Mill Creek’s Craig Peterson has had a rough few years.
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